[linux-audio-user] Rosegarden & ALSA Sequencer IO Ports

I'm having trouble using timidity from within Rosegarden. I configure Rosegarden to use timidity as a soft synth, but when I try to play back I can't manage to get any sound. What is even more confusing is that when I open qjackctl's MIDI connections dialogue, I see input ports for both Rosegarden and Timidity, but no output ports for rosegarden are shown. And to make it still even more confusing is that there is a connection of some sort between the two because if I use the virtual keybd and connect it to rosegarden's in port, the output plays through timidity.

1) why is there no out port shown for Rosegarden

2) is Rosegarden using some means other than the ALSA Seq interface to connect to timidity?

3) since it is apparently connected somehow, why do I only get playback from timidity when playing something though the Rosegarden in port, while not getting any output when playing from Rosegarden itself?

I've tried Muse, but it's even more trouble. It segfaults unless I use the -d option, which makes it pretty useless.

Are there perhaps other midi based sequencers that work better than these that I'm not aware of?

-Reuben
Received on Thu Jan 13 04:15:15 2005